A MIND PROGRAMMED Episode 1: Last Minute Passage
STONETOSS Episode 141: Get Together
CLASSIC BIBLE TALES Episode 83: Preparation for the Passover
FULL OF EYES Episode 12: Bound into a Yoke
PAPER DOLL VERONIKA Episode 40: Prisoner of the Caves
The Long, Slow Defeat
Germany is actively disproving the neocon axiom that “freedom is always good for the economy”.
One in four German companies is considering moving production to other countries amid the energy crisis, Tanja Gönner, CEO of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), told Die Welt am Sonntag news outlet.
“The high energy prices and the weakening economy are hitting the German economy with full force and are placing a great burden on our companies compared to other international locations. The German business model is under enormous stress…Every fourth German company is thinking about relocating production abroad,” Gönner stated.
Germany’s energy-intensive chemical industry is particularly affected by the crisis, Wolfgang Grosse Entrup, CEO of the German chemical industry association (VCI), told the news outlet.
“The brutal energy prices are knocking us out…Without a functioning price brake, the government is willfully accepting deindustrialization,” he warned, adding that if the chemical industry fails, other industries will follow, which “could be the knockout for Germany as a business location.”
The report says German companies are suffering a variety of problems, including high energy prices, disrupted supply chains, and even the aftershocks from China’s rigid crackdown on the Covid-19 pandemic.
In very-related news, the reason why Russia has been engaging in low-intensity attrition warfare is finally becoming to obvious to ignore, even for the globalist media.
Western weapon stockpiles have become strained after countless arms transfers to Ukraine, making it increasingly difficult for NATO militaries to keep up with politicians’ pledges to continue supporting Kiev with whatever it needs for as long as it takes, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
“Smaller countries have exhausted their potential,” and according to one NATO official, at least 20 of the alliance’s 30 members are “pretty tapped out,” the newspaper wrote. Only “larger allies,” including France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, have enough stockpiles to continues or potentially increase their weapon shipments to Ukraine.
Since the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in late February, the US and its Western allies have been providing Kiev with billions of dollars in security assistance, to the tune of nearly $40 billion, now comparable to the entire annual defense budget of France. Moscow has repeatedly warned that the weapon shipments will only prolong the conflict and increase the risk of a direct conflict between Russia and NATO.
As Ukraine continues to call for more weapons, EU stockpiles are running low, with Germany already “reaching its limit” as of early September. Meanwhile, Lithuania, which does not have any more weapons to donate, has urged the allies to give Ukraine “everything we have.”
US President Joe Biden has vowed to keep the arms pipeline open for “as long as it takes,” but even American military stockpiles have taken a toll after repeated shipments to Kiev. As early as March, just weeks after the conflict in Ukraine kicked off, the US Defense Department was already scrambling to replenish thousands of shoulder-fired missiles supplied to Kiev. By August, US stockpiles of 155mm artillery ammunition were “uncomfortably low,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
The US think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) previously pointed out that the American military is “not structured to fight or support an extended conflict,” while the defense industry is “sized for peacetime production rates,” and expanding capabilities would take years.
Putin has stated, from the start, that the objective was to demilitarize his enemies. Now the USA is being defeated and Europe is paying the initial price. It’s not over, but the trend is clear and on the verge of becoming inexorable. The sooner that the neoclown imperialists give up their global ambitions, the better off they will be, but because the seeds of failure are sown in the field of past success, they are very unlikely to assess the situation correctly and make intelligent decisions based on accurate information.
Crucifixion Denial
Elon Musk: Denying a violent event, such as Sandy Hook, the Holocaust, and the September 11th attacks.
Ian Miles Chang: Twitter now has a new policy against Holocaust denial, 9/11 denial, or Sandy Hook denial. Thanks for adding this, @elonmusk
The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ of Nazareth was indubitably a violent historical event. Should not its denial be similarly banned? Does this not mean Twitter has adopted an official Crucifixion Denial policy?
Saturday Arktoons
ENTER: NIGHT Episode 8: Escort
THE RED TATTOO Episode 25: War, not murder
HYPERGAMOUSE Episode 93: Cosplay
VEGFOLK FABLES Episode 161: The Will
INVASION ’55 Episode 20: A Beautiful Day For Flying
BEN GARRISON CLASSICS Episode 71: The Apple
Nightfall, Reconsidered
It never occurred to me that the people who periodically massacred the scientists in Isaac Asimov’s famous short story, “Nightfall”, were actually the good guys.
Researchers at Boston University have created a new strain of Covid-19 that has an 80% kill rate in humanized mice.
Their names should be posted somewhere, publicly and prominently, in the event that their creation ever “escapes the laboratory”. The Mandarins may well have been onto something when they forcibly shut down technological development in China.
Gatekeepers
A little doggerel inspired by AC’s observation that many, if not most, of the self-appointed “opinion leaders” of the Right are faker and gayer than a transman at a lesbian bar in San Francisco.
No matter what they do,
No matter what they say,
All of it is building cred
To lead the weak astray.
No matter what they swear,
No matter how they bark,
All of it is gatekeeping
To leave you in the dark.
No matter what they vow,
No matter how they’re based,
All of it is fake and gay
To keep your trust misplaced.
And when they turn upon you
To denounce your tawdry tone,
It’s just an act designed to make
You think that you’re alone.
On a related note, I can affirm, state, and confirm that I am not in the club and I do not have an official 302, or a 302 of any kind. Non serviam.
The Memes Must Flow
Today, and today only, please feel free to send your meme of choice – note the singular – for the Weekly Meme Review. Remember, there is an automatic -1 for #dogposting. We may have to consider a similar penalty for #orcposting, given my known predilection for it.
Speaking of things memetic, Lacey Fairchild has produced what has got to be among the top ten weirdest crossovers ever in comics, in which she reveals her sneakily funny sense of humor.
And, of course, a reminder that now is the time to get your MIDNIGHT’S WAR print editions. An update on the campaign will be posted later today.
Educating the Spiritually Blind
Archbishop Vigano addresses those whose hearts are in the right place, whose spirits are justly offended by the wickedness and evil of Clown World, but fail to grasp the fundamentally spiritual nature of the conflict they are observing:
In this series of events that we are witnessing and will continue to witness, your commitment could risk being thwarted or limited by the fact of not being able to see its essentially spiritual nature. I know that two centuries of Enlightenment thought, revolutions, atheistic materialism and anticlerical liberalism have accustomed us to thinking of Faith as a personal matter, or that there is not an objective Truth to which we all must conform. But this is the fruit of a propaedeutic indoctrination, one that happened long before what is happening today, and it would be foolish to believe that the anti-Christian ideology that drove the secret sects and Masonic groups of the eighteenth century had nothing to do with the anti-Christian ideology that today drives people like Klaus Schwab, George Soros, and Bill Gates. The driving principles are the same: rebellion against God, hatred for the Church and humanity, and destructive fury aimed against Creation and especially against man because he is created in the image and likeness of God.
If you start from this evidence, you will understand that it is not possible to pretend that what is happening before our eyes is solely the result of profit-seeking or the desire for power. Certainly, the economic part cannot be disregarded, considering how many people have collaborated with the World Economic Forum. And yet, beyond profit, there are unstated purposes that stem from a “theological” vision – one that is turned upside-down, it’s true, but still theological – a vision that sees two opposing sides: the side of Christ and the side of the Antichrist.
On the one hand, there is the City of God – the one Saint Augustine writes about – and on the other hand there is the city of the devil. We can say that in this era the city of the devil is clearly identifiable in neo-Malthusian globalism, the New World Order, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the European Union, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and in all those so called “philanthropical foundations” that follow an ideology of death, disease, destruction, and tyranny. And also in those forces that have infiltrated the institutions, which we call the deep state and the deep church.
The archbishop is absolutely correct. How many times have I warned you of the dangers of propaedeutic indoctrination! Well, none, actually, since that’s a new one on me.
Propaedeutics (from Ancient Greek προπαίδευσις, propaídeusis ‘preparatory education’) is a historical term for an introductory course into an art or science.
But if the words are new, the point is clear. Too many people who are on our side don’t even know what our side truly is because they have been spiritually lobotomized and forced to perceive the world through the false and illogical lens of the rational materialist. The Good, the Beautiful, and the True sings out to them, but they can only hear the faintest echoes of it, they do not hear the music itself.
And yet, they can smell the stink of sulfur that permeates Clown World, and their very being revolts against it. What the archbishop is telling these people is that they will be forced to make a choice, and it’s not our side that will force them to make it. Submit to God or submit to the world, those are the only two options available to every man.
Friday Arktoons
BOB #89: Not Our Future
WARDOGS INC. #8: Heading Out
THE SWORD OF GOD #35: Little Shoppe of Horrors
CHATEAU GRIEF #173: Stabotage
SHADE #65: Neither Accident Nor Malfunction
Speaking of Arktoons, the crowdfund for MIDNIGHT’S WAR has been officially launched and is presently at 45 percent of goal with 88 backers over 50 percent with 99 backers. Check out the video there, and be sure to note that the way to obtain all three paperbacks/hardcovers is to back for the first one, then add-on the other two.
Go Woke and Choke
Wales is the latest World Cup team to lose after making a public display of their dedication to the rainbow agenda.
ITEM: Gareth Bale’s side wore rainbow shirts during their-warmup ahead of the crucial game. Captain Bale led the way as all 26 players wore a white top with multi-coloured stripes running down each shoulder pre-match. Following the warm-up, the players returned down the tunnel and later re-emerged wearing Adidas jackets with rainbow flashes amid an ongoing row with FIFA over political statements and its ban on the LGBTQ ‘OneLove armband.
So brave. Much wow!
ITEM: Disaster for Wales at the World Cup after Welsh goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey was sent off for clash with Iranian. Wales have suffered a gut-wrenching 2-0 defeat in their crucial match with Iran
Wayne Hennessey was sent off and Iran struck the post before two late goals.
The soccer gods are clearly not amused by teams that put politics and globalist propaganda ahead of sports.